September 27, 2006

Oprah Turns Us Down, We Make New Fall Schedule Anyway

Apparently she was indignant about her being the first one do come up with the idea of singing Tapestry a capella or something, and has been publicly annoyed at Kenny G for stealing her fire repeatedly in the past. Well, no matter, we couldn't arrange that promo deal to give away cars to the first 100 Record Fair customers who had tattoos anyway, so best of luck to Ms. W. in her radio aspirations. She's got style (Real Audio). But WFMU continues to move onward into the future, and the new Fall Schedule kicks off Monday, October 9th, running through June 11th. Welcome to some newbies and welcome back to some staffers who took a break; the new schedule can be viewed in table form, or as a long list with show descriptions, RSS feeds for each show, artist listings per show, etc.

Comments

Okay, I guess I get to be the one to say it; Hova and Belinda, I can understand that anything gets old after more than a decade, and getting up on Saturday early enough to be on the air at 7 am and trying to make the tin-can telephone work is tough, and DJWW can't be counted on to be asleep anymore, and all. I just wish you had done a formal farewell so we could all have said goodbye.

So . . . goodbye. Belated happy 3rd to Herself, from all her many audience uncles and aunts. Strong winds and calm waters to the two of you, and don't forget to send a card once in a while.

I will miss the Acapulco Dance Party with Acapulco Rodriguez. However, I'm about to put a heap of his September shows on my MP3 player, so it'll be a while before they run out.

I will miss Donna too. Unfortunately I haven't had a chance to listen to Monica much lately (I only have a 4 gig MP3 player), but I hope she returns. I think I have a "Do or DIY" program on there I haven't listened to yet either, yet I'm a little sad to see her go off the sched.

Ah, for the days when I could listen to WFMU over the air for several hours a day, including at work. Now I can barely keep up. I don't even hear my favorite DJs weekly (except Bethany, who has a really accessible timeslot, and often Pseu and Bryce). I only load every third or fourth show onto my player, at best.

Glad to see Woody in a somewhat more accessible timeslot (accessible for me anyway). I might occasionally hear him live, at least a little. I've downloaded a couple of his shows from the Thu. overnights aand enjoyed them, but squeezing those four-hour shows onto my iPod really strains the capacity. I can cut 'em up into bits and listen to only one or two hours, but that seems, errrrr, improper somehow.

OPRAH ... from spending several years in Jeremiah Wright's anti-American racist church, listening to sermons like "God Damn America", and giving life time achievement awards to the likes of Louis Farrakhan ... to her newest opportunistic religious beliefs ... who could possibly take Oprah seriously? This woman's ego is soooo big, being a billionaire celebrity isn't enough, she has to start her own religion ... not to mention all the additional money she is going to make selling all those book, tapes, CD's, etc. to her poor followers. Oprah's new power hungry ambitions include efforts to replace traditional America with Obama ... and access to a President she puts into office ... to her efforts at replacing Christianity with a new religion she controls. I think it's time for America to deny Oprah access to our television sets.